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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

KARL .A. HOHENSTEIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO DAVID I MOMEEKAN AND AR-ABELLA G. WRIGHT, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

CALCIMINE.

EECIFICATIOI" forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,109, dated June 30,1885.

Application filed March 30. 1:485. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. KARL A. HOHENSTEIN, ofBrooklyn, county ofKings, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oalcimine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improved calcimine, which can be used for inside or outside walls, and which is capable of resisting rain and other atmospheric influences; and the invention consists of a calcimine formed of lime, caseine, borax, and a soluble gum.

In preparing my improved calcimine ninetyfive pounds of whiting or slaked lime, two pounds of pulverized caseine,which has to be free of acid, two pounds of pulverized borax, and one pound of shellac or any other soluble gum are ground and thoroughly mixed.

\Vhen the calci mine is to be used, it is mixed with the usual pigments and water, and applied to the wall in the same manner as com- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 1 my invention I have signed my name in presenee of two subscribing witnesses.

KARL A. HOHENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

PAUL GonPEL, CARL KARP. 

